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The efficacy of governance varies across West Africa, as does the region’s record in tackling the spread of the coronavirus. There are clear signs that good governance can boost a…
Nouh El Harmouzi and Tom G. Palmer argue that now is the time Arabs to finally enjoy the ‘bourgeois deal’.
In 2011 the two of us were in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where Nouh…
What is post-legislative scrutiny (PLS), and how can it serve as an instrument for good governance? Philip Norton and Franklin De Vrieze outline the latest research and evidence…
Robert Hii explores ongoing efforts to reconcile the livelihoods of rapeseed and palm oil farmers with threats to biodiversity and climate change.
A new United Nations…
This post by GP's Online Editor is part of a series exploring ‘public authority’ based on research at LSE’s Centre for Public Authority and International…
Euan Burns examines which remittance-dependent countries are likely to be most affected by the Covid-19 global pandemic.
The different ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic is…
Jasminka Dedić responds to a recent post by Branko Milanović on ‘magical thinking’ among the proponents of the degrowth agenda.
Ljubljana, 1 March 2021
Honorable professor…
Issues affecting gender equality are frequently debated in the European Parliament. Drawing on a recent study, Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo present…
Karola Klatt explores Japan’s contradictory moves towards a nuclear free future.
Ten years after the devastating tsunami and triple core meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear…
Nation states, we’re told, are in a state of decline. What, then, is the alternative? Is a post-state world possible? What would a post-state world even look like? How would the…
Oussama Mezoui arges that developed countries' pandemic responses should be a wake up call for the aid and development sector's conditionalities.
The pandemic has shown us…
Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey examines Ghana’s insurgency development, state response and likely implication of a failure of early counter-insurgency.
Weak States are more vulnerable to…
Hans Gutbrod examines the recent Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the just war tradition and asks whether it is still useful for unpicking modern conflicts.
Last…
Scientist William Ruddiman is the lead proponent of the Early Anthropocene Hypothesis, which asserts pre-industrial land clearing and agricultural practices caused the…
Nayef Al-Rodhan on why space should be treated a global commons and new cooperation mechanisms are needed to ensure this asset benefits all.
The United States Space Force was…